At this time, ezrin−/− mice are runted, weighing two to three times less than wildtype littermates (data not shown).
Next, we mutated the two Runt binding sites in the labial enhancer (lab550R), to test their function in transgenic lines with single copies of chromosomally integrated LacZ reporters.
Three Runt domain genes in the A. gambiae genome and two previously unidentified Runt domain genes in the D. melanogaster genome were found by TBLASTN search using the S. purpuratus Runt protein sequence as the query.
He started this buying spree as chief executive of the former Southwestern Bell, the unaccountably proud runt of the seven Baby Bells spun off from the old AT&T monopoly that the government busted up in 1984.
Three runt domain genes have been described in each vertebrate genome (the RUNX gene family), but only one in other chordates.
A second round of tetraploidization in the ancestral vertebrate could have produced a set of four paralogous runt domain genes, and a hypothetical gene conversion event may have led to the current complement of three RUNX genes (Fig. 7 inset).
One scoop is a "runt" and goes for $3; two scoops are a "piglet" ($4.50); three scoops are a "piggy" ($5.25); and four scoops, a "hog" ($6).
There, Runt is bullied by nine even bigger giants, child-eating cannibals who mock him for being a vegetarian and try to hunt Sophie, whom he valiantly defends.
Mosasaurs big and small, the runts weighing in at two tons and the alphas like Tylosaur a stupefying sixty feet.
All runts died prematurely within two months of birth.
